Beijing bluntly criticized the United States after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the good old days of borrowing were over. S&P cut the US long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus on yesterday, over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden.
China's Foreign Minister called on Friday for more global cooperation to resolve US and Euro area debt problems as stock markets around the world tumbled on fears another financial storm may be developing.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) announced Friday it would buy stakes in Standard Bank Argentina and another two institutions from Standard Bank Group Ltd for about 600 million dollars as it expands into South America as part of its global strategy that includes Europe, India and Pakistan.
Chinese rating agency Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. said Wednesday it has cut the credit rating of the United States from A+ to A with a negative outlook after the U.S. federal government announced that the country's debt limit would be increased.
Brazilian newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo revealed documents from Chinese company Sun Falcon International Inc. offering triangulation scheme through Los Angeles port, the busiest container port in the US, to avoid Brazilian anti-dumping tariffs.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 13% in 2010 to reach 159 billion dollars indicated UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) annual investment survey that was released Wednesday.
China, the world's largest steelmaker and iron ore consumer, has set a target of dramatically increasing ore imports from Chinese-invested resources in the steel industry's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), an industry official said.
Soybean processing and exports from the US, Argentina and Brazil, the largest shippers, were below expectations in the second quarter on reduced Chinese imports and competition from palm oil, Oil World said in a Tuesday released report.
China will become Latin America's second largest trade partner as early as in 2015, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said this week.
China on Thursday pledged to extend limits on new home purchases to smaller cities as authorities step up efforts to cool the country's red-hot real estate market. The State Council, or cabinet, said it would tighten existing property restrictions in cities that have seen excessive price rises to push them back to reasonable levels.